Logo

Chapters

  • 0. Configuring your computer to use Python for scientific computing
  • 1. Introduction to biological circuit design
  • 2. Introduction to Python for biological circuits
  • 3. Big functions from small circuits
  • 4. Finding biological circuit motifs
  • 5. Analysis of coherent feed forward loops
  • 6. Incoherent feed-forward loops generate pulses, speed responses, and serve as dosage compensators
  • 7. Molecular titration generates ultrasensitive responses in biological circuits
  • 8. Robustness in biological circuits
  • 9. Kinetic proofreading: Multi-step processes reduce error rates in molecular recognition
  • 10. Blinking bacteria: The repressilator enables self-sustaining oscillations
  • 11. Oscillators, part II: Uses, simplifications, and elaborations of negative feedback oscillators
  • 12. Gene expression is noisy! How stochastic effects lead to heterogeneity
  • 13. Bursty gene expression
  • 14. Stochastic simulation of biological circuits
  • 15. Stochastic differentiation
  • 16. Cellular bet-hedging
  • 17. Time-based regulation in cells
  • 18. Paradoxical regulation in intra- and intercellular circuits
  • 21. Turing patterns
  • 22. Scaling reaction-diffusion patterns
  • Appendix A: Regulatory functions and their derivatives

Homework

  • Homework 1
  • Homework 2
  • Homework 3
    • Homework 3.1: Accelerated responses with FFLs (30 pts)
    • Homework 3.2: Noncooperative bistability with a growth-determined positive feedback circuit (40 pts)
    • Homework 3.2: A tri-stable cell-fate determinant circuit (30 pts)
  • Homework 4
  • Homework 5
  • Homework 6
  • Homework 7
  • Homework 8
  • Homework 9
  • Homework 10

Schedule

  • Schedule overview
  • Homework due dates
  • Lecture schedule

Policies

  • Lectures
  • Homework
  • Grading
  • Extensions
  • Course communications
  • “Ediquette”

Resources

  • Books

Package docs

  • biocircuits package documentation
Biological Circuit Design
  • »
  • Homework 3
  • View page source

Homework 3¶

  • Homework 3.1: Accelerated responses with FFLs (30 pts)
  • Homework 3.2: Noncooperative bistability with a growth-determined positive feedback circuit (40 pts)
  • Homework 3.2: A tri-stable cell-fate determinant circuit (30 pts)
Next Previous

Last updated on May 26, 2021.

© 2021 Michael Elowitz and Justin Bois. With the exception of pasted graphics, where the source is noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. All code contained herein is licensed under an MIT license.

This document was prepared at Caltech with financial support from the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.



Built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read the Docs.